2004:1817 - NEW ROSS: Morrisseyland, Wexford

NMI Burial Excavation Records

County: Wexford

Site name: NEW ROSS: Morrisseyland

Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A

Licence number: 03E1390

Author: Catherine McLoughlin, Stafford McLoughlin Archaeology

Author/Organisation Address: Unit 4, Enniscorthy Enterprise Centre, Milehouse Road, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford

Site type: Excavation - miscellaneous

Period/Dating: Medieval (AD 400-AD 1600)

ITM: E 672915m, N 627896m

Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 52.397736, -6.928569

Testing of a site adjacent to St Stephen’s Cemetery was undertaken in March 2004. St Stephen’s Cemetery may be the site of an Early Christian church. Testing revealed a system of furrows that contained North Devon ware as well as abraded medieval pottery. Several undated gullies were also present. The testing suggests that the church site did not extend beyond the present circular enclosure.